diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0a717a9..5e2076b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -22,24 +22,22 @@ RUN pip uninstall pillow fiona -y && \
     
 # pygeos is deprecated and has been merged with shapely. (pygeos works around python GIL)
 # https://github.com/shapely/shapely
+
+# geopandas/cartopy/etc. error when importing sqlite3 from python:
+# ImportError: /opt/conda/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.cpython-311-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: sqlite3_deserialize 
+# Moved to requirements.txt
+
 RUN mamba install -c conda-forge -y \
-    geopandas \
-    cartopy \
-    shapely \
-    pysal \
-    contextily \
-    osmnx \
-    jupyterlab_widgets
+    jupyterlab_widgets && \
+    fix-permissions $CONDA_DIR && \
+    fix-permissions /home/$NB_USER && \
+    mamba clean --all
 
 RUN mamba install -c esri arcgis -y
 
-RUN mamba install numpy -y
-
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
 RUN pip install --upgrade nbconvert
 
-# RUN mamba install -c conda-forge geopandas cartopy pygeos pysal contextily osmnx jupyterlab_widgets -y
-
 USER $NB_UID
 
 COPY arcgis_test.ipynb /opt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f1201bc..e82be2e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,9 @@ shapely
 pyshp
 pandas
 censusdata 
-graphviz
\ No newline at end of file
+graphviz
+geopandas
+cartopy
+pysal
+contextily
+osmnx
\ No newline at end of file